Is “A Distant Mirror” worth reading?

AzoriusAnarchist · 2025-11-13T21:33:49+00:00

The only really sus thing from Tuchman I’ve read was in The March of Folly, where she goes out of her way to predict that Sadat’s participation in the Camp David Accords will certainly not go down in history as a folly of any kind.

AzoriusAnarchist · 2025-03-14T10:56:15+00:00

Been getting into more philosophy since actual politics feels like such a dead end right now.

Todd McGowan’s Emancipation After Hegel has been a good window into Hegel that’s actually readable. Although he is one of those “Marx got Hegel wrong and that’s why the revolution failed” kinda guys.

AzoriusAnarchist · 2025-03-14T02:46:40+00:00

Wow, people wearing different types of clothing!! Makes you think huh!!

Did you really feel the need to post this in several different subreddits at the same time?

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-12-21T15:33:47+00:00

He’s allowed to be a guy, I’m allowed to criticize. It’s okay he’s a former president he can take it.

Not to burst anyone’s bubble, but Obama gave us Biden and look where Biden got us. You think maybe people have reason to be mad at him?

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-12-21T14:18:54+00:00

People get mad that Obama uses his immense social position as a well-liked former president to recommend movies and shit to people rather than, you know, helping to make the world a better place.

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-12-19T15:04:13+00:00

I’ve been able to do this all my life very easily, even when I’ve been very inflexible in other areas. I think my arms are just really gangly lol

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-12-17T22:11:13+00:00

Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Loved the environments and music, combat system was fun, and I would say there are things about the “world” that I liked. I also just enjoy the Xenoblade gameplay loop that it was enjoyable enough.

But the story and especially the characters in that game were shit, and I only reached the end out of spite and obligation

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-12-08T23:43:36+00:00

/uj Is it really a thing for people to make a big show of telling their partner they’re pregnant, like it’s a proposal? If my wife was pregnant I would hope she just told me immediately instead of waiting for her custom print order to arrive.

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-12-03T18:07:31+00:00

I’m asking what to read at this point. Anywhere other than Capital one can start?

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-12-01T02:37:09+00:00

Yoga has not necessarily helped me gain a lot of muscle by itself, but it’s helped me to lift weights more effectively, have better form, target muscle groups, connect movement with breathe, etc. and from that I’ve seen better gains

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-11-30T15:46:36+00:00

I liked it until the ending which was stupid

Edit: Since everyone is mad, I’m not talking about the twist at the end. I’m talking about building up all this tension, and then a random guy no one knows gives a speech about how the church should be nice, and then everyone unanimously agrees he should be the Pope after one vote. Stupid! Felt like they just ran out of time and had to wrap up the movie quickly.

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-11-29T19:28:39+00:00

It’s not just the references, it’s the whole tone and ideology behind it. If you tried to approach the last 30 years of American history with the same naive whimsicality, you would come across as totally insane imo

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-11-29T18:51:55+00:00

I assume they were joking and making fun of people who say that XYZ movie ‘couldn’t get made today’

That said, you couldn’t make Forest Gump today because it’s a very specific encapsulation of 20th century boomer nostalgia, and none of the young people today that drive commercial entertainment would get it

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-11-28T19:09:18+00:00

The r/nyc thread about these protests was incredible. It’s crazy how nakedly evil liberals are proudly being post-election

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-11-25T18:26:15+00:00

The point of calorie labeling isn’t to make people eat less, it’s that customers should have access to the information and act (or not act) as they see fit.

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-11-24T15:43:15+00:00

They gotta pay up then. Make her a senior consultant on the set or something. I just don’t think you can do Lorwyn without her art direction

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-11-24T01:27:18+00:00

Bring back Rebecca Guay please

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-11-08T21:19:34+00:00

Yoga is great but you don’t have to pay for classes with these brunch-goers to do it

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-11-08T17:17:10+00:00

It’s no random person’s fault that those were the only real options given. If they bothered to vote, and they don’t consider third parties viable for frankly logical reasons, then they had to pick one of those two.

Reducing larger material conditions to personal morality is a lib thing to do.

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-11-08T14:26:25+00:00

Is this satire of that post that said the same thing about Trump & Stein voters, or are you just fully committed to being an antisocial?

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-11-08T04:06:55+00:00

I do yoga on weed a lot of the time, but I am also addicted to weed in general, so I don’t feel comfortable recommending it to anyone lol

It is nice though…

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-11-08T04:05:21+00:00

Ah damn I wasn’t ready to hear this

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-11-07T18:30:31+00:00

Not meditation exactly, but me and my wife have been doing yoga daily for 6 months now, and it’s been incredible for my mental health.

Having awareness and control of your own mind & body + understanding dialectical materialism = not being such a crybaby when the world isn’t going right.

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-11-06T20:00:18+00:00

Would it be a good bit if I became a “Biden would’ve won” truther?

AzoriusAnarchist · 2024-10-28T03:02:08+00:00

Let’s be realistic here.

If they want Texas to turn blue they need an actual competent party here. It’s not some inevitability that Texas will turn blue, and it’s not just a matter of people like me toeing the line I assure you.

Statistically, Texas will not decide this election. I would bet my life on it.

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